“People buy them when they’re pretty little green lizards in pet stores,” Bruce Dangerfield, animal-control officer for Vero Beach, told Scripps Howard. But “they’ll eat you out of house and home, and that’s when people let them go.”

There are now hundreds of green iguanas roaming Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties, the report added.

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A Washington state woman who wanted to illustrate to her county the failings of its voter-registration system might learn more about the legal system after signing up her dog, Duncan M. MacDonald, to vote.

“I wasn’t trying to scam an election or do anything fraudulent,” said Balogh. “I wanted to make a point. I thought maybe they’d even say, ‘Thank you.’ ”

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Officials of Melaka, Malaysia, are angry at scientists who named a virus after their southern state.

The scientists told the world last week about the Melaka virus, which is spread by bats and can give humans fever and breathing problems like the Melakan man in whom it was first detected.

“Melaka is a good state, beautiful and peaceful, not the birthplace of diseases,” one official told daily newspaper The Star.

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Plastic bags are now banned in Uganda.

“Due to serious environmental concerns and the difficulties in the disposal of polyethylene bags and plastic containers, action was required in order to encourage producers and consumers to minimize [their use],” said Ugandan Finance Minister Ezra Suruma last month.

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Women can now become a “Buddhist Nun for a Day” in Japan.

For $65, women visiting the Ryugenji temple in Kyoto change into a white kimono and tabi socks and take the reflective six-hour course.

“Some women come to wear the clothes,” said priest Koyo Watanabe. “Others have some worry, about work or an illness.”